Additional Covid-19 vaccine booster doses for regular, medium-risk adults are no longer being recommended by the World Health Organisation, which says the benefit “is marginal”.
For such people who have already received their primary vaccination course and one booster, there is no risk in having further jabs but the returns are slight, the agency’s vaccine experts said.
The UN health agency’s Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunisation (Sage) has recommended additional boosters, beyond the primary course and first booster, only for people at the highest risk of developing severe Covid-19.
Sage chair Hanna Nohynek said: “The vaccine is safe and efficient against serious disease and death, but the benefit for milder disease in people who have gained immunity through vaccination and illness is very marginal,” reports News24.
News24 article – WHO says medium-risk adults don't need extra Covid-19 jabs (Open access)
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